Super important that every discord user takes this survey. Let them know.

And if you want a Mamdani, you need to volunteer with a ground campaign. You need to talk to people irl about the policies your candidate is fronting and why they're a good thing. It's not just charisma, it's support. Support against bad actors and support to rally wider political momentum.

I think more people in the ttrpg and AP space could benefit from going back to their roots of text based and post by post RPs

Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery Two of their major policy pushes were a more prominent gun culture and zero COVID restrictions Bill Montgomery died to the COVID virus Charlie Kirk died to gun violence

Yet another example of using “AI” but mixing up GenAI and other forms of machine learning. The polls they cite about AI attitudes? People are talking about GenAI The examples where AI is working? Non-GenAI machine learning. The latter, more speculative ones? Back to GenAI Fave trick of AI fans

related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America

Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?

Oops I started a new Side Project since most of my stuff is in a different ZIP code than I am. If you're interested in being part of a Wierd Project. Would you like to share with me your favorite Magic the Gathering Commander you play and if you have any foods you can't eat?

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Today, 11/8, in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled the Civil Works Administration, designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed.

Damn a lot of folks who last year claimed to want a Smedley Butler seem to be really reticent to engage with the real world experience that radicalized Smedley Butler.

Kinda wild that Mamdani and Sliwa are the guys who won their primaries and there has been open, nonstop meddling to overturn that will of the voters and install the disgraced former governor and it’s largely being covered like this is perfectly normal shit

No no no you don't understand, I don't want to BE the He/Him Lesbian Great Khan of my visions, my destiny is as the Scheming Vizier to the He/Him Lesbian Great Khan of my visions, I just need to FIND the He/Him Lesbian Great Khan from my Portents

Sliwa represents a thing increasingly rare in this society, a Conservative I can respect.

Sorry, it’s fucking weird to talk about eating someone’s pet, even if they are a “food” animal. Dogs and cats are eaten in some places too, but it certainly isn’t seen as acceptable to talk about making a meal of them in the comments of a pet photoshoot.

The product is just dependence on mind poison. Study after study has shown people using GPT think they are more productive but are empirically not. It is just a button you press that delivers hits of dopamine completely unrelated to the world around you.

Friends, the Miami Seaquarium was a facility with a horrific animal welfare record. I will not miss it. But it shutting down is absolutely not "a huge milestone win for ocean conservation." Words mean things. Conservation refers to species or populations not going extinct.

There's a lot of miserable novels that, while narratively very effective and with well written prose. We make too centric to high school reading curricula and it does harm to literacy by making young people think reading is supposed to be dour and miserable.

Anyone I know on here play Path of Titans? Looks like it could be fun but I never hear folks discussing it really.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Don't confuse experience with intellect, never stop letting yourself enjoy the world, and don't stagnate in your compassion. Listen to new music, it's the voice of those after you. Never become an "I just don't get why this generation..." elder. Teach and tell. Listen and learn. Don't lose that.

The embrace of AI in spaces I thought were more resistant to it has my brain and stomach feeling like it's full of bees tonight and I can't sleep

Increasingly, I feel as if these self-proclaimed coalition builders talking about "winning the middle" aren't talking about the people they hope to win over. Rather, they're talking about themselves, and defining what it will take to keep them in the tent. Not opposed to purity tests; issuing them.

Some brief thoughts on the Anthropic settlement, and why I think most authors should claim their share of the settlement if they can, inadequate though I think it is: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/a...

I don't care how much you've thought about your sociological observation, if you can't even use words like porn or sex or kill without doing some weird self censorship I am too old to be your audience

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

Okay, so I'm apparently going to war with AI image generation for internal distribution work documents So far my arguments consist of - Chat GPT 4, which our assistant is trained on, is trained on improperly and in some cases, unlawfully licensed content, literally theft

Jumping Spiders are adorable but it is WILD to me how quickly they went from "another arthropod" to being featured in - Pathfinder - Magic the Gathering - The Entire Pet Trade Now if there's a spider in media, 80+% of the time it's a Salticid. @kessuburd.bsky.social says it's Lucas, I think I agree

They don’t have enough officers to track every person who meets this criteria. The NSPM-7 might allow for extra judicial surveillance and spying on so-called “Leftists”, but just like in Portland, it will exhaust millions in resources for very little results. Keep fighting, siblings.

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

Three high schoolers, who likely didn't make a career out of enabling and encouraging fascism, were shot in Colorado today.

speaking ill of the dead is cool and good when they’re an evil fascist, I just don’t want any of you sweet angels to get a door knock

Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”

@govpritzker.illinois.gov's take on Kirk is the correct one: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it." On point. So glad Democrats are saying this.

Regardless of your feelings on the shooting, there's no doubt that Trump didn't need it to continue enacting mass political violence against the civilian population. Political violence is committed every day against protestors, immigrants, and trans people, and they rarely get any justice.

Have we considered that he got shot not for political reasons but because he's just really annoying and floods all over short form video content? I dunno I don't really care

If you don't like degrowth as a concept that is fine! But unlike 'abundance', it actually has a clear definition, and quite a body of academic and non-academic work exploring its meaning. If you can't attack it without redefining it, you're sort of just revealing the flimsiness of your argument

If the Arena Spider Man "Universes Within" cards weren't tied to the Spiderman set I don't think I'd be as interested but I must say I'm having a TON of fun with exploring them so far. Figuring out how MtG creators are warping Spiderman stuff in universe is really fun!

Finally muted Jubilee on other platforms just because they were flooding my space with ads and I had to hear that Patrick Bet David guy make utterly elementary school claims about sociology and economics. Why are they pushing that video of all videos? Truly just infant-brained quality of arguments

Is there any actual *measured effect* that the Newsom tweets are having? I keep hearing how they’re “working” but I have not heard exactly how. I read the Alabama one and the comments are saying how great it is but is there a result someone can point me to

When you want to critique the new Cracker Barrel Logo because of Minimalism but you're seeing all the usual suspects complaining about it being "Woke"

Our cultural obsession with "IQ Points" is actively leading us into the worst possible conclusions for society

It sure would be a shame if that survey was available to anyone who wants to share their thoughts on the matter… patreon.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Heeeey, everyone, it’s almost the school year and I’m gonna bang the drum again. JOIN THE PTA. The PTA is like an unofficial collective bargaining group to make stuff happen. If you want to squelch AI-creep in schools? JOIN THE PTA. Ps. In many states/districts you don’t need to be a parent.

Similar to my old "Your State Bird Probably Sucks, please Change it" presentation I am looking to tackle that again but this time a far more daunting task School Mascots

Being seen as too risky due to social fallout for Disney's investors really is the writing on the wall for AI in creative spaces I don't like praising Disney but this is a genuinely a good call for reasons the investors probably cannot comprehend